Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Brazil emergency measures to have 4.7% of GDP impact on budget: official
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's emergency measures to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic will have a 344.6 billion reais ($62 billion) impact on this year's primary budget balance, wort...
May 21, 2020
Hewlett Packard to cut costs by $1 billion, reduces CEO pay by 25% on pandemic woes
(Reuters) - Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Thursday unveiled a plan to cut costs by at least $1 billion by 2022 and said it would reduce the base salary of its chief executive officer by 25%, in respon...
May 21, 2020
Pakistani police arrest cousin of two girls murdered over social media kissing video
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police have arrested the cousin of two teenage girls whom he is suspected of killing after a video of the girls kissing a man went viral on social media, offic...
May 21, 2020
Federal inmates with COVID-19 in Louisiana continued working for days, union says
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The union for corrections officers at one of the U.S. federal prisons hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic has filed a U.S. Labor Department complaint alleg...
May 21, 2020
Trump says he may support another coronavirus stimulus bill
YPSILANTI, Mich. (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he may support another fiscal stimulus bill to help prop up the economy during the coronavirus outbreak, though he did not pro...
May 21, 2020
Nvidia forecasts second-quarter revenue above estimates
(Reuters) - Nvidia Corp on Thursday forecast second-quarter revenue above analysts' estimates, as demand surges for its chips used in data centers that power the shift to working remotely due to the c...
May 21, 2020
Syria puts temporary travel ban on businessman Rami Makhlouf: ministry Facebook
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian court has placed a temporary travel ban on prominent businessman Rami Makhlouf, a copy of the court order posted on the Ministry of Justice's Facebook page showed on Thursd...
May 21, 2020
JBS resumes chicken slaughtering at Brazil plant after COVID-19 outbreak: statement
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian meatpacker JBS SA said on Thursday that operations at its plant in Passo Fundo, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, were allowed to resume after the facility wa...
May 21, 2020
Senators attempt to advance bill lengthening coronavirus business loan terms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Negotiators in the U.S. Senate reached agreement on Thursday on legislation increasing the amount of time, to 16 weeks from the current eight-week deadline, for small businesses...
May 21, 2020
U.S. FDA says 27 coronavirus antibody tests no longer comply with its rules
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it has removed 27 makers of coronavirus antibody tests from its list of vendors who have notified the agency that they were selling a...
May 21, 2020
